None of this, of course, can adequately prepare you for the streamlined sonic sheen and general earworm genius of Love City. Back In Love City is a standout album on its own merits, and not many groups can offer illuminating before and after pictures of their growth with two back-to-back releases. Trailblazers like The Vaccines can quite possibly keep you alive through the coronavirus era, along with those requisite shots, of course.
Young had more to share with Paste on all of the above. Justin Young : Yeah. Lots of new songs. So you have to be figuring out new ways to find that inspiration from somewhere. But I will say—because we pushed the album release back when the pandemic hit—as it has done everything, it definitely reframed the record. And on the odd occasion that I listen back to Back in Love City now, I am sort of struck by how the last 18 months have given it new meaning.
Do you have a significant other yet? Young : Actually, I do! My girlfriend moved in with me just a week before Covid, before lockdown. And so we were placed into this, uh, quite intense situation together. But not only did we survive, but I would like to say we thrived in it. It was a baptism by fire, and it was amazing.
I genuinely feel so lucky to have been locked up with someone who I loved and who loved me, because I know plenty of people who were alone.
And we were here together for the whole time in London, and we also met in London, actually, met at a party. Young : Pre-Covid and post-Covid, I would quite often find myself at lunch, with four friends and realize that we were all just kind of playing on our phones. Because actually, the thing that I found tough about Covid was not having anything to look forward to.
The natural, futuristic, thrilling, sugar-high end. All of a sudden everything started to feel quite real. We let a lot of that fear dictate a much bigger chunk of our lives and creativity than it should have done. All statistical winners, some of these albums have been received more warmly into the hearts of the population than others: English Graffiti, I point out, is rarely cited as a favourite, though it is a solid release—in its brooding, stylish varnish, arguably one of their best. While rhythms, lyrics, ideas are repeated throughout these albums—as any one individual is bound to do—Justin and The Vaccines still achieve a distinctive persona for each song and the albums that contain them.
Connections to the past, to the future, between old memories and new romances, The Vaccines are not satisfied only in being one of our finest live bands , but are forging a confident path towards becoming one of our most reliably-catchy hit machines too.
It sounds like the desert and conjures up imagery of a vast American expanse because it was recorded in one, just outside El Paso, Texas. The music absorbed the atmosphere like a sponge.
I guess, we were trying to make the perfect driving song, but in terms of the artists that inspired it, it was a lot but also none at the same time. Listening to this album for the first time, it is a lot to take in. It might even seem chaotic because The Vaccines tried so many different things. Its predecessor Combat Sports had no shortage of the band's signature euphoric feats, but Back In Love City not only sounds fun, it also sounds like it was fun to make. It is also their first proper concept album, set in a futuristic metropolis, not unlike those depicted in Blade Runner.
The idea acted as a compass, it anchored and grounded the band, and it helped them figure out what they wanted to say, and how they wanted to play. What would the music sound as a soundtrack or in an advertisement?
It all started to come together when we figured out what kind of world we wanted this album to live in. The world it lives in is one where emotions have run dry and became a commodity. If one wants to go and restock on them, Love City is the destination. Sometimes for profit, other times just for the sake of sparking any emotion to replace indifference. I think we are increasingly going in that direction, not only with entertainment, but also with technology and social media," he explains.
Our vocabulary, when it comes to how we feel, is actually quite reductive and simplistic. The idea that love is a word that can encompass all the feelings it gives you is a little silly, right? Any feeling, be it love or hate, or hope, or excitement, or anxiety, or depression These are completely different things to different people. They are endless, but what would the world look like if they were finite?
When a huge climate change march went past Young's window, it also made him wonder what would happen if we ran out of the things we feel, as well as the things we have. Preparing to fly to LA to finish working on Back In Love City in early , Young registered on what could be best described as a dating site for houses. He took some nice pictures of his London home, wrote it an attractive bio, and found it a match on the other side of the Atlantic. The two owners left the keys under the mat and went to live in each other's houses for two months without ever meeting in person.
I would do it again, it is such an interesting and enjoyable experience. Except the part where I crashed his car, but he was very understanding. I never took my house off the website, so I still get emails from people interested in a swap, but now is not the time. You could call it a guitar rock record, but it leaves enough space for pop, country, and Americana too. Modern artists seem to focus more on creating their own aesthetics rather than cling to a particular music style.
Young views this trend as a reflection of how we listen to music these days, often choosing mood-specific playlists over concrete albums.
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